Almost everyone on the Internet has received an email listing various dead folks under the
heading "Clinton's Body Count." The number of dead has varied considerably over the years
we've seen this; it's actually lower than it used it be, more often around 60 compared to 80 in
some versions a couple of years ago. There is never any documentation or proof, just a lot of
suspicious sounding coincidences.

We're pretty skeptical about the list as a whole, mostly because Clinton just doesn't seem that
competent. If the guy can't cover up 10 blowjobs from a girl who loves him, how could he cover
up scores of political murders while being investigated by Ken Starr and several other hostile,
well-funded prosecutors and committees? Starr himself ruled Vincent Foster's death a suicide,
and Starr had custody of James McDougal, who died of a heart attack in prison. So unless you
think Ken Starr is in on Clinton's murderous conspiracy, these deaths don't make sense.

Some of the entries are even more absurd. One version of the list includes someone who died in
a one-man skiing accident. So what is Clinton supposed to have done, planted the tree 20 years
earlier? And the list has grown to include random deaths popular among conspiracy fans, such as
Danny Casolaro (an investigative reporter who targeted George Bush much more than Clinton)
and William Colby (CIA director under Nixon and Ford). Only the most tenuous of threads
connect either to Clinton, while each had much more obvious (and effective) enemies.

On the other hand, there are some legitimately questionable deaths of people with at least some
connection to Clinton. The best known would be Ron Brown, Clinton's Commerce Secretary
who was under active investigation at the time of his death. The official version of his plane
crash is reasonable and could well be true, but you don't have to be a conspiracy nut to want to
know more. There are also a couple of murders of people on the list that are not solved; while
there's nothing particular pointing to Clinton, there are some questions worth looking at.

Even in these cases, though, the "Body Count" lists twist the truth. Take the case of Mary
Mahoney, a former White House Intern who was working at a Washington Starbucks when she
and two co-workers were shot by unknown attackers. The case is unsolved, but Michael
Rivero's version of the story claims that she was killed because Michael Isikoff (the Newsweek
reporter who broke the Lewinsky story) had dropped hints about a "former White House intern
whose name begins with 'M." The story is stupid anyway, but now in hindsight we know it's
ridiculous. If Clinton was behind the murder, how could he have killed the wrong "M" intern? I
think it's safe to say he knew which one he was having sex with, even without hints from Michael
Isikoff.